Big Daddy: the dictator novel and the liberation of Latin America.(The Feast of the Goat)

From: Reason | Date: August 1, 2002| Author: Moses, Michael Valdez | Copyright information

The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Liosa, translated by Edith Grossman, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 404 pages, $25

IN THOSE HEADY days in 1967 when Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his fellow writers of the Latin American literary "boom" regularly descended on Havana to attend Fidel's shrimp barbecues-in an age when Che still dashed about the globe on behalf of the Marxist millennium to come--two of "Gabo's" most illustrious companions, the Peruvian novelist Mari...

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